Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to announce a multi-year overhaul, long-term investments to modernize the Louvre museum, next to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa ...

France will launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine, ...

France`s President Macron announced a renovation plan for the Louvre, including a dedicated, independently accessible space for the Mona Lisa. French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Why has France announced an overhaul of the landmark Louvre? AP explains French President Emmanuel Macron ...

These are some of the plans presented by French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to revamp the dilapidated Louvre Museum in Paris. Standing next to Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona ...

Olivier Gabet, Director of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre Museum, knows what you’re thinking. When it was announced that the Louvre would present its first-ever fashion ...

Yet despite the Louvre’s decrepit state ... Notably, France has a tax system that incentivizes companies to contribute to the preservation of national cultural heritage and institutions through ...

While the CGT describes the new system as “discriminatory”, Dati says it will “help finance this new museum project”. Meanwhile, the Louvre’s workforce is unsure what to make of the ...

The Louvre museum would also have a "new grand entrance" to help ease congestion at its glass-and-metal pyramid entry point and be financed entirely using the institution's "own resources".

Just a few days after French newspaper Le Parisien leaked a memo in which Louvre director Laurence des Cars expressed extreme concern for and dissatisfaction with the museum’s dilapidated state ...